This paper uses data from the 1990/91 Pakistan Demographic Health Survey (PDHS) to examine the importance of socioeconomic, behavioural and biodemographic factors in the determination of neonatal, infant and child mortality in Pakistan with special focus on maternal education and health seeking behaviour. The central hypothesis of the study is that education of mother and health seeking behavio...

M. Heys , T. Candler , A. Costello , D.S. Manandhar , R.M. Viner e a Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK b Department of Paediatrics Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust, UK c Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA), World Health Organization, Switzerland d Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA), Nepal e Institut...

OBJECTIVE Revealing the experience of mothers when massaging their children to know the phenomenon in the context of a mother-child healthy development. METHOD This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach carried out with 11 women who massaged their children and answered the guiding question: What did the experience of massaging your child mean to you? RESULTS The experience...

in 17 hospitals, 13123 new births were born during 1989 in tehran. some well-trained personnel observed the events, filling the required questionnaires, interviewing, and collecting necessary information. among them 730 newborns was low birth weight (less than 2500 grams) which was considered as cases. immediately after each case was born, two normal newborn were randomly selected as controls. ...

Knowledge of pregnant women on the three periods of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV has implication for child HIV acquisition. This study aims to assess the knowledge of pregnant women on mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to identify associated factors in Meket district, northeast Ethiopia. Logistic regression models were fitted to identify associated factors. Adjusted odds rat...